快乐、痛苦与疾病的身体美学——日常美学的一个问题

Pleasure,Pain,and the Somaesthetics of Illness:A Question for Everyday Aesthetics

本文探讨身体美学可望处理我们日常生活经验中出现的痛苦与疾病的若干方法。考虑到痛苦对我们生存和幸福所具有的进化价值,本文提出更深入的身体美学意识所成就的敏锐感知,可以帮助我们将痛苦通常所预示的伤害降到最低程度,同时更好地体会痛苦带给我们的教训,以及可能从日常疾病和痛苦经验中获得的快感。我将用一些影响深广的思想家如米歇尔·德·蒙田、埃德蒙·伯克和弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙的文本来阐明上述观点。

This paper explores the ways that somaesthetics can treat the problems of pain and illness that emerge in our everyday experience of life.Noting the evolutionary value of pain for our survival and well⁃being,the paper argues that the perceptual acuity achieved through better somaesthetic awareness can help us minimize the damage that pain typically signals while also helping us better appreciate the lessons pain can teach us and the pleasures that can be derived from everyday illnesses and experiences of pain.These points are illustrated by using the texts of influential thinkers such as Michel de Montaigne,Edmund Burke,and Virginia Woolf.